In today's chill beginner level art tutorial, we are going to
scribble our way to a lovely autumn bouquet.
Hey, friends.
What's up?
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My name is Shayda Campbell.
And around here, we get creative together.
I love getting me some new art supplies.
And there's nothing better than just, like, roaming around
an art store.
And I get stuff sent to me from companies, but I love to
go to an art store and just look around and think about
what I can make with all the goodies that I see.
So recently I've treated myself to some Faber Castell pencil,
crayons, colored pencils, and I like to share with you when I'm
a little bit uncomfortable and a little unsure with a medium
yes we can.
All I can say I'm good at this and here's how to do it.
But I think it's also valuable to say I'm not so good with
colored pencils, but let's try something.
So we're going to do this fun, very loose scribble floral
bouquet and it's all autumn.
It's a beautiful autumn color palette.
But before we get started, I have some exciting
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Okay, let's get started.
I'm always trying new things behind the scenes.
And lately I've been working with colored pencils, also been
doing a lot of acrylics.
I just love trying new things.
And so today I have a really fun kind of
scribble floral bouquet.
If you'd like to make a bit of a mess, get a little crazy
while also making something pretty, this is the
one for you, so let's jump right in.
First of all, I have a gorgeous reference photo.
Pinterest and Instagram are great reference image resources
and this beautiful Bouquet spoke to me for its autumn
color palette and the wild look.
And so what I want to do is work in my scrap paper here.
All supplies are linked in the description, and there's
also a supply section at the end of this video.
So working on scrap paper with a pencil, I'm going to sketch
the bouquet, but I don't need to get it exact.
Like it's just my inspiration.
I'm not going for total realism.
I don't care if it's the exact same shape or even
the same colors.
Photo is there to assist me, to inspire, not to cause
me grief, not to stress me out.
I don't need things to be exact.
Now, as I sketch, I'm creating a guide as I go.
So I'll place a circle or an oval to mark the general shape
and size of each flower.
So that's for that large orange sort of daisy looking flower
in the center.
I'm going to put a whole bunch of scribbly marks to represent
all the stems and leaves that are sort of rising up through
the center of that bouquet.
And yeah, I'm just getting really,
really messy with it.
Look at each flower and think, how can I break that down into
its simplest form?
Maybe it's just a circle, maybe it's just a roughly
circle or a starburst scribble.
We're getting very, very loose.
This is one of those pieces of art that you can make, even if
you are someone who says, Oh, I can't draw.
You know what?
If you can't draw, I bet you're going to do even better at this
than me, because I'm always fussing over details.
And this is one of those wonderful pieces of art that
doesn't need detail.
It needs movement.
It needs big, messy scribbles.
It needs like an attack.
So that's what we're going to do today.
So continue marking everything out here, everything that you
want to include for the Queen Anne's Lace.
I'm kind of doing these little pebble looking marks.
I've put some leaves in here, and even though this looks like
a bit of a mess, I'm quite happy with it.
So let's grab a fine liner and go over our initial sketch.
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great way to prioritize your creative me time.
Working with the fine liner.
We're going to start refining our sketch and we're going to
start to think about how we will illustrate and scribble in
some of these flowers when we begin working with
the colored pencils.
Which flowers are you really simplifying?
Which ones are going to be big scribbly messes?
Which ones might have a little more detail, that kind
of thing.
So just go over it with pen and then when you've done that,
if it still looks like a bit of a giant scribbly mess
like mine, take a brush pen or a marker and just mark out
where all the green is going to be.
The leaves the scribbly branches through the center.
That kind of gives you a better idea of what it will look
like eventually, and then we're ready to trace it.
And tracing it is allowing you to keep what you like and
change what you don't.
So if you're like, Oh, that one flower should be more to the
left or it should be a bit bigger, now is the time to
make those little changes while you trace.
But tracing is also how we are going to transfer the sketch
onto our good copy paper.
Now I'm working in a beautiful scrapbook from Muji.
If you ever get to a Muji, they have a great stationery
section with wonderful journals and planners and pens.
We took Sally to the X in Toronto, which is like a big
fair that we have here in Ontario.
And so when we were in Toronto, I got to Muji and
got myself this scrapbook.
And like any good art junkie, I need to use my new supplies.
And I've also recently purchased these
pencil crayons.
I'm not going to stop calling them pencil crayons.
That's just how we say it in Canada.
Um, and so these are all my new favorite supplies and you know
how it feels to have new stuff.
You're like, I got to use it.
I got to think of a way to use all these new goodies.
So that's what I'm working with.
Craft paper, notebook and Prismacolor pencil crayon
supplies are linked in the description, but this is
one of those projects that would look so beautiful.
Done in gouache or watercolor brush pen or even just ink,
a nice black or blue like scribble bouquet.
And as I begin to draw the Queen Anne's lace, you can see
how I'm really just scribbling.
I'm making these scribble clusters in white and I'm
having fun with it.
I'm letting the flower kind of dictate how I move the pencil
crayon and I'm just getting quite free.
The tracing paper I place graphite transfer paper under
my trace went over it and you can see it transferred my
sketch really beautifully, almost creating a coloring page
for me that I just get to color in and have fun with.
I didn't want to transfer too much because I want to get
quite free, so that's why I didn't transfer any of like the
scribbly twigs and leaves in the middle.
I want that to all be very loose and done with abandon.
So that's why haven't transferred anything there.
I'm starting the coloring process now by filling in a lot
of the flowers and I'll do all the greenery later.
And as I color these flowers, I'm just thinking about the
shape of the flower and how I can represent it in scribbles.
So first I did the Queen Anne's lace in my little pebbly
scribble clusters for those orange ones that are sort of
daisy like I just did this starburst of lines,
very scribbly.
And I'm allowing the shape of the flower to dictate the kind
of motion and movement of these lines.
I think already said that.
So have fun with it and don't worry about perfection.
I think the looser you can be, the more you can let go and
call on that inner child to kind of make a bit of a mess
the more successful this project will be.
Now that I've scribbled in many of these flowers and I've got
this beautiful autumn color palette going on here with lots
of reds and peaches and pinks, I'm going to begin coloring in
some of the flower centers.
So I used a dark brown for those poppies.
And then as I started coloring in these peachy ones,
I thought, why not switch to a dark purple or blue?
You can always switch out your color as long as the value is
the same, it's going to look great.
So if you want to do blue leaves instead of green,
go for it.
Have fun.
Try new things.
I love the way the dark purple looks with the
peaches and yellows.
It just adds a vibrance.
The brown is nice too, but I don't want to use brown for all
of all of the flower centers.
And then I'm going to reach for some of my greens here.
So I'm going with quite a dark, cool green to begin for
the Queen Anne's lace.
I'm placing a lot of small lines in between my
pebbly clusters, making it look like they're all joined by lots
of little stems and branches.
And then I'm going to reach for a slightly lighter green close
to the same color.
And I am going to start having fun with this
middle section here.
Just putting a whole bunch of scribbly bits to represent
those stems and leaves.
Now as you scribble and make a mess and get a little crazy,
remember making something pretty has nothing to do with
how good you are at drawing.
Your technical ability has nothing to do with making
something meaningful, making something that is cool,
that will make people go, Ooh, wow, that's so interesting.
That's so beautiful.
So scribble with, abandon and have fun and forget about the
fact that you don't know how to draw or that you tell yourself
you don't know how to draw.
Okay, this is coming together.
It is looking so pretty.
I'm going to reach for sort of light brown and color in this
pot that the flowers are sitting in.
There's a little bit of a highlight here right
in the center.
So I'm shading accordingly, just leaving it a
little lighter there.
Now, if you are working monochromatic.
So you're just doing this in black or blue?
If I was doing that, I think I might leave the pot unshaded.
So just do the outline of it, maybe do a pattern,
like some lines.
I think that's what I would do.
Just a thought to keep things from looking too heavy since I
know a lot of you won't do this in colored pencil.
Maybe you're working watercolor or brush pen and this would be
a really pretty one to do a monochromatic piece.
Any who get in a little off track.
I am just doing a little bit of shading, really.
I put a bit of brown and gray onto some of these
white flowers, just adding some details, some lines,
some shading, really just scribbling,
keeping in mind that it should be scribbles.
And then I also want to put a little shadow here.
So I've got a dark gray.
Although consider using purple or blue for the shadow.
It does not have to be gray or black, so we'll just put a
bit of a shadow to the left, maybe add a little bit of gray
on the flower pot.
And then speaking of shading, I'm coming in with a dark blue
and just doing a few, like messy scribbles within
the shadow, within that center part where there's lots of
twigs and whatnot.
I'm putting a few stragglers kind of going out from the
bouquet to add to the movement and whimsy of the
overall floral area.
And what am I saying?
And then continuing the shading, try this,
try using a bit of blue when shading on the orange flowers,
using the colors, complementary color to shade.
So for red using a little bit of green to do your shading,
it just gives a wonderful shadow that's a little more
interesting than basic gray.
To finish maybe 1 or 2 more little twigs.
And I think we are done here, friends.
Let's sign this crazy scribble bouquet.
And that's that.
I can't wait to hear what you think of this.
It's something different.
I know how much it means to you to see watercolor and pen
illustration on this channel because that's mainly what
I do.
But I also want to say thank you for letting me try new
things and experiment because that is really at the core of
who I am as an artist.
So thank you for watching.
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And for anyone who's interested, here is
our supply rundown.
I did my preliminary sketch in this Strathmore
colored pencil notebook.
I do a lot of work in here, not just for colored pencil.
Most of my ink drawings are in these notebooks.
I've got a fine liner, the mulatto black liners,
my mechanical pencil, and then I have my brand new
scrapbook from Muji.
I'll try to link this online.
I'm not sure if I'll find it, but any craft, paper,
notebook or colored cardstock would be wonderful
for this project.
Equally white paper would be nice as well.
And then I have my new pencil crayons from Faber Castell.
This is the polychrome series and I will link those in
the video description.
I'll also link tracing paper and graphite transfer paper.
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